Helicotoma marginata
No picture of Helicotoma marginata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helicotoma marginata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicotomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Helicotoma marginata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Elkhorn Formation · Richmondian Group1
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The named rock units Helicotoma marginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helicotoma marginata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Helicotoma marginata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Beatricea undulata1 site
- Columnaria1 site
- Columnaria alveolata1 site
- Conocardium richmondense1 site
- Hebertella sinuata1 site
- Ischyrodonta1 site
- Megalomphala crassa1 site
- Paupospira tropidophora1 site
- Streptelasma1 site
- Vinlandostrophia moritura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helicotoma marginata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Helicotoma marginata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helicotoma marginata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helicotoma marginata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHelicotoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897